The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will introduce a special regime of self-governance on its territory and plan holding local elections on October 18. This was announced by DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko in a statement on Thursday, TASS news agency reports. Zakharchenko said that the unilateral...

Bound by a feeling of duty to the place he was born, Sergei left his family and comfortable life in Germany to fight with the pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine. Kitty Logan reports from the front line. …read more Source: Deutsche...

Bulgaria’s team won for the third time in a row the international EUROFAN tournament for football fans from all over Europe. By tradition the contest was held in the city of Lvov, Ukraine. The Bulgarians snatched the title convincingly after scoring 26 times and allowed only one gall. At the semifinal they defeated Belarus by 2:0, while in...

Deliveries of gas to end customers in Serbia will be regular and reliable, Srbijagas, Serbia’s state-owned natural gas provider, said on Wednesday.This is true “despite the new situation concerning transits of natural gas across Ukraine and information about suspension of Russian gas supplies to the country,” the company said in...

According to the latest figures of Eurostat, which were released on Wednesday, Bulgaria granted citizenship to 808 foreign nationals in 2013. Bulgaria granted the third lowest number of citizenships in the EU, the only two member states granting less being Lithuania and Slovakia. A total of 94 % of the people who were granted Bulgarian...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that a special status the country’s Donbass region in the east will not be enshrined in the constitutional amendments prepared recently.Poroshenko made the comment after submitting the amendments which boost regional competences aiming at decentralization, but falling short of the...

The other day I took part in a Ukrainian talk show called “Freedom of Speech.” The format is an unusual one: Six local experts with credentials in the social sciences or in journalism sit three to a table, four special guests sit two to a table, two more surprise special guests arrive during the show and stand and perorate, and then of course...